Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT for La Crosse County, Vernon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties La Crosse County, WI, Vernon County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1351 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKE 262327
SVRLSE
WIC063-123-270000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
ISSUED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
625 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...LA CROSSE
IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN
...VERNON
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
WESTERN LACROSSE COUNTY AT 610 PM ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY
OF LACROSSE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG WINDS..NICKEL
SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
D0ON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MNZ-019-262145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 405 PM CDT TUE JUN 26 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... AT 4 00 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR TO BE NEAR THE TOWN OF LEROY...26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUSTIN MN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST IOWA BY 430 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. ANOTHER LESS INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED IN HOUSTON COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF CALEDONIA MN. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH. OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA UNTIL SUNSET...WHEN THE THREAT OF PRECIPITATION WILL DIMINISH. THESE SHOWERS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT THAT PASSED THROUGH THE ROCHESTER AREA ABOUT 2 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE AREA OF THE THUNDERSTORMS...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO QUICKLY FILL AND OVERFLOW. IF YOU LIVE NEAR SMALL STREAMS BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WDB
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.